I felt very honored to be the godmother-opener of the new cultural format of DiVini Libri at Eboli. Dr. Alessio Scarpa, director of the monthly magazine „Il Saggio – Libri“ introduced me to the guests and Prof. Vincenzo Pietropinto was pleased to talk and review with me my „La Cartiera“. I would like to thank everyone involved and especially to Vincenzo’s niece who played on the piano wonderful passages of Bach!
Here’s the official press review by DiVini Libri and some pics!

„Tra una folta presenza di pubblico, è partito sabato scorso con successo e con il piede giusto, il nuovo Format Culturale DiVini Libri, a cura dell’Associazione Vacanze Salernitane Promozione Eventi Territorio. Nella Sala Concerti di San Lorenzo a Eboli, si è tenuta la presentazione del libro „La Cartiera“ di Sina Merino, che ha aperto la kermesse culturale. Dopo i saluti istituzionali da parte dell’assessore del Comune di Eboli Giovanna Albano, il Direttore Responsabile del mensile il Saggio-Libri Alessio Scarpa, ha introdotto l’autrice, mentre il professore Vincenzo Pietropinto ha chiacchierato amabilmente con Sina Merino, parlando del libro e della vita in Argentina negli anni delle dittature. Alla fine della bella serata l‘ Azienda Agricola Cicalese Rossella, ha fatto degustare, ai presenti, il suo eccellente vino Evoli.“

Alessio Scarpa & Vincenzo Pietropinto

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Grazie mille al Direttore Nicola Conforti e Salvatore Conforti!

I’m very honored to hold my next reading in Eboli/Italy. This little town is well-known by Carlo Levi’s work „Christ stopped at Eboli“, his own memoir written in 1945 during his exile in 1935 – 1936 in the villages of Grassano and Aliano, the people there used to say to have been forgotten by God due to poverty and Christ stopped at Eboli, the last train station to reach these villages. I’m very proud that „La Cartiera“ has been compared to Levi’s work by the historian Giuseppe D’Angelo, who wrote the foreword to it. Levi used to write about Eboli in dialect „Jévule“, so I am very pleased, the vineyard Azienda Agricola Rossella Cicalese dedicated one of her wine to Levi and will underline my reading with it. www.rossellacicalese.it – grazie mille Rossella! Grazie mille to Raffaele Agresti of Promozioni Eventi Territori, the city of Eboli and Radio Città 105!

Eboli for me is very personal, since I was a child I used to go there visiting relations during holidays and from there we drove down to Paestum’s beach. I cherish beautiful childhood memories of it!